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I'm setting up split views (internal/external) on BIND 9.3.3. I allow recursion for my internal clients (ie. office, branches, etc..) but disallow recursion for external. Doing a MX query from the outside with nslookup on a windows box against my domain doesn't show anything but it's completely fine with linux. Weird. Is this a nslookup bug on windows? If I allow recursion for my external view, then nslookup on windows works! However, I don't want to allow recursion for the external view but I'm afraid that exchange servers from other companies won't be able to deliver mail to mine.

You should probably post your named.conf as well as the results of nslookup from Windows & dig from Linux (both external). There are way too many variables that could cause the results to be different for anyone to give an anwer based on what you've provided so far.

Both the linux workstation and the windows workstation are on the same network (same vlan). It's completely weird that nslookup on linux works fine but not on windows. Running dig on linux shows a successful result as well.